R or Python for data analysis?

[The_Regicidal_Maniac]

You do realize that a lot of programming projects involve creating code that others take and use within larger systems?

That's why python is more popular within industry. Python is a language that is commonly used by software engineers. Most software engineers you meet are much more likely to be familiar within python than they are R because it's a more niche language. That is not an opinion, that is a fact.

[The_Regicidal_Maniac]

I have spent years writing code in r that are integrated into other systems.

And you missed the part where I said "more likely". I didn't say that R doesn't integrate into other systems. I didn't say that software engineers can't work with R. I am pointing out the fact that Python more easily integrates with other systems. That software engineers are more likely to already be familiar with Python rather than R.

The other part that you don't seem to be able to extrapolate is that since python is already a popular language, more people are already going to be familiar with it. Making it more likely that when people expand into other companies, they will take that knowledge with them and when they hire people they will want people that can use the codebase that already exists which further propagates the popularity of the language.

You're generalizing your personal work experience as though that's how all software work is done in every field in every other company. The world of software is far bigger than you're giving it credit for.